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great photo,s derrick

Agreed; great photos. Just what Wigan World is all about. I remember every corner shop having those Brooke Bond Tea adverts. And good for you saying "going home for dinner", Derrick......WHY have born-and-bred Wiganers started saying "lunch"? It drives me potty!

Couldn't agree with you more, Irene. You're obviously not one of the "ladies who lunch"

Many thanks everyone for your coments on both photos during
the summer of 1959 it was a hot day, coming home from work
6pm my mate said lets call for a pint in the Royal pub he got us a pint each 6 30pm who should come walking in much to
my surprise my mother who takes the pint off me tells the
landlord I was only 16years and got on to me and my mate
I'll never forget that as long as I live D.C.

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Derrick, like the rip in the back of your jacket, but that's what we did then. Your old clothes got relegated to work clothes. Can you imagine a 16yr. old of today doing the same - or maybe they would, but it would be called the weathered look.

I was born in 1946 and my mother did her Friday shop here. The lady was called Annie Hawthorn. She had one daughter. Her sister was Doris who lived half way down castle hill. Doris had twin daughters and went to st. Benedicts schools. Opposite the shop was the cotton mill. The shop was located by the cemetery. The lane led to a farm , her name was Doris and she delivered milk twice daily in a horse drawn carriage. I lived at 153

Aye Derrick, that was your mam, down to a tee.

That was my grandmothers shop. Sadly I never met her as she passed away before I was born. It's lovely just to see the shop as it was.